Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Marquis de Sade

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

Neal A. Maxwell

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

Mitt Romney

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

Publilius Syrus

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

Henry Adams

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

John Barrymore

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

Tennessee Williams

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

Ovid

Venus favors the bold.

Edgar Allan Poe

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

Serena Williams

A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Ben Jonson

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

Franz Kafka

The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.